Yale Climate Connections: Stay Informed with These Helpful Climate Newsletters

It’s harder than ever to figure out where to get trustworthy, timely information as news organizations struggle with funding, local publications disappear, and misinformation spreads rampantly on social media platforms.

This monthly collection of articles from Yale Climate Connections focuses on one topic at a time, like insurance or biomimicry. For more frequent, multi-topic information sent directly to your email inbox, you can sign up for the following excellent climate newsletters. We’re biased, but we also think the Yale Climate Connections newsletter is pretty great.

From climate-dedicated organizations: all but the last two are nonprofits, and all are free.

• Science Dispatch, from Anthropocene Magazine. “A hand-picked selection of the most compelling research from around the world, a compendium found nowhere else.” A good source of optimism about human ingenuity. Weekly.
• Canary Media. “Covering the transition to clean energy and solutions to the climate crisis.” Their own top-notch journalism, an effective melding of (sometimes technical) information and lucid, everyday language. Daily and weekly dispatches, with regional options too.
• Daily Climate. Published since 2003, this project of Environmental Health Sciences is likely the longest-running climate-change news aggregation – and perhaps the best starter newsletter. 
• Grist. Begun in 1999 as a collector of climate stories, Grist now writes its own journalism (often with partners). The homepage features a few pieces from other sources; the several newsletters focus on its own wide-ranging work. 
• Inside Climate News. Their own reporting, which is wide-ranging and high-quality. ICN Weekly and Inside Clean Energy are among their several engaging newsletters. 
• The Energy Mix Weekender. Canadian, focused largely but not only on Canada. Original reporting and “a centering point – in functional terms, an aggregator and a rewrite desk – for the avalanche of climate news.”
• DeBriefed, a comprehensive weekly collection from the UK climate news organization CarbonBrief. A global scope but of course from a UK perspective. 

Climate-focused newsletters from larger publications, ordered by ease of access. 

Note: Paywall rules change, so this information – the best now available online – may not stay current. 

• Imagine Newsletter. This climate newsletter from The Conversation UK is a “weekly synthesis of academic insight on solutions to climate change.” Free. Sign up here. 
• Down to Earth, from The Guardian. Free weekly newsletter; no paywall to read articles on website but some limits on app. Climate change has been a longtime focus for this veteran UK newspaper.
• Boiling Point, from the LA Times, by Sammy Roth. Twice weekly, California-centered, free to registered readers. A column with lots of links, not all to this newspaper. Non-subscribers can read five articles a month in the mobile app, or you can register and read “a select number of free articles every rolling seven days.” Access information here.
• Climate Coach, from the Washington Post, by Michael J. Coren. Weekly, free to registered readers. Solidly researched and friendly in tone, this column focuses on substantive climate actions for ordinary people in their daily lives. (Coren is on parental leave until April; meanwhile, the newsletter just collects recent climate stories from the paper.) Non-subscribers can read “a limited number of articles a month” for free; many public libraries offer access, and Amazon Prime members can subscribe to the paper at a discount. The Post has consistently published strong climate-change journalism.
• Climate Forward, from The New York Times. This newsletter is for subscribers only, twice a week. (But non-subscribers can read 20 free articles a month, and some public libraries offer access). Like the Washington Post, the Times has excellent climate coverage. 

Single-author blogs and newsletters will be the focus of a future collection.